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Giving Limerick city a futureTHE REGENERATION of Limerick is not an optional extra. Unless the Government provides additional funding for the most socially deprived parts of the city, the progress made in rolling back high incidences of crime and anti-social behaviour will be lost, along with the hopes and aspirations of thousands of young people and their families. Not only that, in years to come the State will be faced with far more difficult, intractable and expensive social problems. A stark choice faces Ministers between doing what is right or turning their backs on communities that were failed so dismally in the past.
State of the EUWHEN EU leaders assemble in Brussels tomorrow for their informal summit it is likely that their ostensible agenda on competitiveness, Europe 2020, a successor to the so-called “Lisbon Agenda”, will now play second fiddle to the financial woes of Greece and other euro zone members. The leaders may produce a statement in support of Greece. If aid materialises eventually, which many believe inevitable, it will certainly not be telegraphed in advance. Meanwhile MEPs in Strasbourg yesterday voted overwhelmingly, 488 to 137, to endorse the new commission of president Jose Manuel Barroso, having forced him last month to replace the Bulgarian nominee for the aid portfolio.

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Kenny coming across as deft and back in controlANALYSIS:AS THE dust began to settle after George Lee’s spectacular exit from the Dáil, some Fine Gael TDs dared to hope that the former Dublin South TD may actually have done Enda Kenny a favour by bringing the leadership question to a head at this stage in the life of the 30th Dáil, writes STEPHEN COLLINS

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